LARGE AREAS SUBMERGED

Feilding Star, Volume 4, Issue 675, 6 January 1926, Page 5

LARGE AREAS SUBMERGED

FLOODS IN EUROPE COLOGNE’S TRAGIC CONDITION. By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright (Aust. and N.Z. Cable). Berlin, Jail. 4. The Rhine floods are serious. There have been great losses ol live stool-.. The conditions in Cologne are tragic. Families are herded together in the tipper rooms of schools. r J hey are dependent on food brought hv boats. In the town there is complete darkness at night time.

FLOOD WATER R FALLING. HOMELESS PEOPLE IN BARRACKS. Amsterdam, Jan. 4. The water has fallen a yard below yesterday’s high, level at Maestrict. Trains to Liege and, the northern parts of Holland are running, but not for the public. Many homeless people are sheltered in military barracks. In view of the extent of the disaster it- is -remarkable that there have not been any fatalities.

CONDITIONS IN BELGIUM Brussels, dan. 4. Nine thousand houses are submerged at 1.-iege. The plight of the populace is- becoming increasingly pitiable. Military- rescuers and food distributors are working at Bill pressure.

FRANCE ALSO SUFFERS. Paris, dan. 4. Already the Oise has beaten all records, including the floods in 1910 and 1920, having risen 20 feet. The triangle between Creil, Beauvain and No von is a vast sheet of water.

TRAINS SWAMPED. Trains on the main line to Belgium are obliged to slow down lor many miles, while sometimes the floors of carriages' are swamped. Villagers in the, flooded areas are hurriedly evacuating their households. Goods are . being transported on rafts. The flooding of the waterworks at Compeigne have resulted in a limited supply of drinking water, which is being rationed from barrels. The rise in the Aisne has flooded manv streets in Soissons.

LOSS OF LIFE. A. train between Caen and St. Lo was abandoned after the passengers had been rescued. A 'child was killed' arid three "person's injured as the result of the collapse of a house in Caen.

H ITR WORKERS HARD. Some estimates of the damage put it at 20 million francs. The rise in the Meuse convened the streets of Alozierf’s into rushing torrents. It is feared that 20,000 workers in the Meuse Wiley will lie rendered idle for three weeks in consequence ol the flooding of factories.